Jira (PUP-1473) user resource fails on UTF-8 comment

[Charlie Sharpsteen (JIRA)]

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Charlie Sharpsteen commented on an issue   Re: user resource fails on UTF-8 comment Hmm... bummer. I thought we took care of this one with PR 1943. The error message is indeed odd, at first glance it seems to suggest that we're failing to strip UTF-8 down to raw bytes. I haven't seen that before. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1473 user resource fails on UTF-8 comment Setting the gecos/comment field in a local user on debian wheezy with puppet 3.4.2-1puppetlabs1 fails with an ugly error about utf-8 encodings. As this system is completely utf-8 there is no reason that this should be an invalid value, as can be seen by "puppet resource" and "getent passwd" displaying the value without problems. {code} root@puppetm... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.